volatility VS hashcat

Compare volatility vs hashcat and see what are their differences.

hashcat

World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility (by hashcat)
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volatility hashcat
18 103
6,910 19,829
1.4% 1.9%
0.0 9.1
10 months ago 2 days ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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volatility

Posts with mentions or reviews of volatility. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.

hashcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of hashcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing volatility and hashcat you can also consider the following projects:

shellbags - Cross-platform, open-source shellbag parser

john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs

binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool [Moved to: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk]

JohnTheRipper - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs [Moved to: https://github.com/openwall/john]

volatility3 - Volatility 3.0 development

bitcracker - BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker

MalConfScan - Volatility plugin for extracts configuration data of known malware

RsaCtfTool - RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data

picoCTF - The platform used to run picoCTF 2019.

Pyrit - The famous WPA precomputed cracker, Migrated from Google.

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset [Moved to: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2]

hcxtools - A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.